Abandoned Cruise Ship Philadelphia

Once inside its impossible to miss The Galaxy a giant abandoned cruise ship.

Abandoned cruise ship philadelphia. In 2012 the crew of the Diamond Royale moved the ship farther up the coast to South Carolina where it was abandoned. Since 1996 shes been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. I believe there are still hotels and other areas ships converted into hotels functioning so we avoided the front desk area.

Worldwide 4866 seafarers on a total of 336 vessels have been recorded as abandoned on board ship in records kept by the International Maritime Organisation IMO and the International Labour Organisation ILO since 2004. In fact shes the current holder of the Blue Riband an award given to the fastest passenger liner that crossed the Atlantic Ocean with record-breaking speed despite having retired from service in 1969. Following the September 11 attacks the Philadelphia terminal accommodated some of the ships that had been diverted from New York.

NBA legend Charles Barkley was supposed to be the star of a cruise. The cruise ship was sold to new owners who offered the incentive of a free cruise to garner attention for its inaugural trip where disaster struck. In 2013 the shipyard filed a lawsuit in court seeking to seize and resell the vessel to recoup.

After hundreds of attempts to turn this decaying vessel into anywhere from a luxury family cruise ship to office space for tech companies lets look at the fascinating history of the SS United States. The Galaxy used to be a real cruise ship that was transformed into a 3hotel after heaving a leak. The ship hit bottom so to speak in 2007 when the City of Alameda California officially declared it abandoned.

There has been a dramatic rise in cases over the past two years. Today I wanted to take a look at the iconic American ocean liner resting abandoned in Philadelphia. The 50-year-old cruise ship which holds the speed record for a ship in its class for years has been unused and docked like a ghost ship on the Delaware River in South Philadelphia an aging.

The largest cruise ship scrap yard is in Alang India and it recycles more than 50 percent of the worlds abandoned and decommissioned cruise ships. From strange and mysterious cruise ships to the biggest oil tankers in the world. In November of 1978 the venerable Duke was retired from service on the seas a new landlocked career was about to begin.